I Regret Loving You for Five Years novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Ten Minutes on the Ice
I read it twice and handed it to Harriet.
She read it once.
"Well," she said. "That's not optional."
"I'm not going."
"I know you're not." She folded it in quarters. "I'd like to see her make you."
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The plane was a small, red twin-engine thing on skis, and it came down out of the dark at eleven the next morning.
The temperature on the skiway was seventy-three below.
The crew had been out for two hours, marking the runway with fuel pots that burned in two long orange lines across the ice.
The pilots radioed in on approach.
Ten minutes on the ground. Engines running the whole time. If the engines stopped at this temperature, they might not start again.
Ten minutes, and then they were gone, with or without us.
Harriet was strapped into the rescue litter in three sleeping bags with only her face showing.
I'd written her transfer note by hand, two pages.
Anterior heart attack. Expired alteplase, lot 3302-D, real date eleven months gone. Fibrillation, shocked once. Recurrent changes.
I'd taped the empty alteplase vial into a plastic bag, with its sticker half peeled back, and clipped it to the note.
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